Eco Factor: Fighter plane cockpit created from recycled materials.
The passion to fly a fighter plane rests in many people, but there are just a few as passionate as Raymond Wood, who has spent more than a thousand hours building the cockpit of an aircraft that played a key role in Britain’s fight for freedom during the Second World War. Wood has created the cockpit of Westland Whirlwind from recycled materials that includes an old and used dining table.
Raymond Wood, a retired car parts salesman, states that when he and his wife moved to a new house in September 2007, he realized that his old dining table had exactly the same dimensions as the cockpit of the Whirlwind. Apart from the dining table, this wooden cockpit carries knobs and dials made of coffee jar lids and bottle tops. He also used the parts of his wife’s broken sewing machine to form the gun sights. Other recycled materials used in the cockpit include a broken kitchen heater and waste plastic pipes. Wood is now set to bid farewell to the creation when it joins some other exhibits at the Fenland and West Norfolk Aviation Museum.
The Dark Side:
The creation is just awesome and has nothing in it that can be hazardous for the environment.
Via: EDP24
